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I am after recommendations for children's horse books. I have a six year old who is getting into horses but all the books I have are a bit old for her. Had a look online and to be honest lost the will!

Recommendations appreciated
 
REALLY showing my age here, but when I was a gel I loved anything by Joanna Cannan. They do seem very dated now but are still jolly good stories. Fidra Books have reprinted several of them, and other good stuff, eg Fly-By -Night and Silver Snaffles
 
I think the Sheltie the Shetland Pony books might be aimed at the littlies, it the youngest aimed fiction I can think of, otherwise when I was that age I read/look at the pictures of a dog breed book until it fell apart (and then some) so maybe a horse picture atlas/breed book?
 
I would love to find a book with the basics in like colours, parts of the horse etc but I am even struggling finding this for the right age!
 
I was going to suggest "The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse" by Ursula Moray Williams, but having checked on Amazon, a new copy is over 1K! But if your library has a copy, it's a wonderful children's story, mine has no pages left attached to the spine!
 
Amicus said:
I think the Sheltie the Shetland Pony books might be aimed at the littlies, it the youngest aimed fiction I can think of, otherwise when I was that age I read/look at the pictures of a dog breed book until it fell apart (and then some) so maybe a horse picture atlas/breed book?
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I loved that when I was a kid & how sheltie blew "raspberries" if he didn't approve of something
 
I used to love Sheltie too! I also loved Dick King-Smith's Sophie books, she wants to be a lady farmer so there are other animals but I'm sure there is at least one about her learning to ride.
 
My 5 year old has enjoyed the princess pony books by Chloe Ryder. I have been less impressed, but we've been doing a chapter a night, and have done 4 of the 6 in the series.
For picture books there's a series called Princess Evie, which comes with a cardboard pony to make. She took one of those to school for world book day as her favourite book so it must be ok.

For factual books there is a lovely m & s one called riding school that is aimed for younger ones(sticker said 8+ but has been fine). Lots of nice pictures of children helping at the school, and simple concepts. I found it in a charity shop so not sure if it's still in print, came with a poster of points of horse.
 
Amo, I have a book that might be suitable! It's got all sorts of stuff like behaviour, parts of the horse, colours, conformation faults, poisonous plants, field management and then a history section. It's really simple and easy to understand, it's the Usborne Dictionary of Horses and Ponies. Pm me if you're interested :)
 
Mad_Cow347 said:
I used to love Sheltie too! I also loved Dick King-Smith's Sophie books, she wants to be a lady farmer so there are other animals but I'm sure there is at least one about her learning to ride.
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Yep liked these also, also had the tapes (old skool! ) versions of them

Probably a bit old for her atm but liked the horses of half moon ranch series also.
 
millikins said:
I was going to suggest "The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse" by Ursula Moray Williams, but having checked on Amazon, a new copy is over 1K! But if your library has a copy, it's a wonderful children's story, mine has no pages left attached to the spine!
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Loved this book!
 
Can you still buy the Thelwell books? They were lovely. And probably a bit older, but I loved the Jill books, the Black Stallion series, and anything by Margauritte (Sp?) Henry.
 
i have a load of scruffy sheltie books if anyone near enough to collect them they are readable but are in storage so are not brilliant condition will root them out and see how bad they are
 
I would recommend the Sheltie books for that age too - and it's nice that they have no 'magic' in them like a lot of the more recent books. I like more realistic stories :)
 
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